Overview
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Starting with the installation of 11 bicycle (and pedestrian) counters in a number of counties in Scotland, and predominantly west, central Scotland, from June 2017 and through to Aug 2020, when the 63rd counter was installed in Fort William in the Highlands … and up to the end of Jun 2021 …
Bicycle & Pedestrian Counts
Counter Locations
Counter Data Summaries
| traffic mode | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bicycle | 121,410 | 334,577 | 1,079,064 | 2,061,402 | 888,103 | 4,484,556 |
| pedestrian | 321,198 | 910,552 | 3,711,360 | 7,784,947 | 5,811,572 | 18,539,629 |
| traffic mode | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bicycle | 10 | 6 | 13 | 24 | 20 |
| pedestrian | 28 | 17 | 45 | 90 | 132 |
| traffic mode | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bicycle | 42 | 29 | 53 | 96 | 81 |
| pedestrian | 110 | 84 | 179 | 360 | 527 |
As at end Jun 2021 nearly 4.5m bikes and just over 8.5m pedestrians had been recorded going past all counters.
Average count per day dropped in 2018 for both types of counters before starting to rise again. Looking at counts overall, cycling peaked in May 2020, two months after the first COVID-19 lockdown was imposed, then continued to drop after plateauing over the summer. Despite further restrictions in 2021 cycling dropped overall. Walking, overall, however continued to rise in 2021. But even this started to decrease in April, and by June had dropped below the same month in 2020.
Variation across Locations
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By Year
By Month
Cycling through the Week
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Cycling – Changes through the Week
Change over Time – Cycling through the Week
Cycling through the Year
Comparing total count for each location against averages per hour through the day… this gets more interesting looking at the data by month, as we can see how cycling changes through the year and with changes in seasons.